…Another concept that's really important to understand when you're…dealing with pattern fills is how to use a clipping mask.…Let me show you how to do that.…I'm going to turn off this jacket pattern.…We'll make a new layer.…A clipping mask works a lot like gold leafing.…You put down a layer of glue.…Then you lay down your gold leaf.…And then you wipe off the gold that doesn't stick to the glue.…And that's kind of of what a clipping mask is like.…So, let's start by basically laying down some glue.…And I'm just going to pick a nice neutral grey here and grab the paint bucket and…let's make sure we're in our foreground color.…

And I'm going to fill the jacket with glue.…We'll call it glue to just grey paint or grey pixels actually.…And then I'm going to make a new layer above that.…Let's call this Glue just for discussion purposes.…In this new layer above it, I'm going to put down my fabric.…So we'll call this Fabric, and I'll just grab the rectangle marquee and make…a rectangle over the area that I want to cover, and fill that with a pattern.…

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11/11/2013

Harness the power of Adobe Photoshop for rendering your fashion croquis and costume designs, taking your sketches from concept to completion. These techniques are not limited to fashion use; they're perfect for all designers and illustrators. Join Robin Schneider as she shows you how to scan, clean, color, and render your hand-drawn illustrations with tricks for adding faces and hair. Then learn how to use filters and brushes to replicate fabric textures like linen, flannel, wool, denim, or fur, and make those fabrics wrap around the body with the Transform and Puppet Warp tools. Robin will also show how to lay out your ideas on presentation boards in a way that will make clients and buyers take notice.